Men’s Basketball Visits Troy on Saturday Afternoon

Saturday, January 17

Troy, AL

5:15 PM

Georgia Southern University

Troy

Eagles celebrate the win over UL Lafayette

Photo by: Frank Fortune - Georgia Southern Athletics

1/16/2015 4:31:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Eagles riding a four-game winning streak into a run of three road games

TROY, Ala. – Georgia Southern will have no time to rest on its laurels following a 78-70 win over UL Lafayette on Thursday in front of a sold out Hanner Fieldhouse. The Eagles visit Troy on Saturday afternoon for a 5:15 p.m. contest which can be seen live on GS All-Access at GSEagles.com. Georgia Southern now leads the Sun Belt with a 4-1 league mark to go with a 11-3 overall record and a four-game winning streak.

DATE: Saturday, January 16th, 2015
TIME: 5:15 p.m. (ET)
LOCATION: Troy Arena – Troy, Ala.
VIDEO: GS All-Access
RADIO: Georgia Southern Sports Network from Learfield Sports
Play-by-Play – Chris Blair - @CSBRadio
Analyst – AJ Henderson - @AJHenderson_SID
Metter/Swainsboro – 103.7 WMBZ-FM
Savannah/Hilton Head/Brunswick – 102.1 WZAT-FM
Jessup – 1370 WLOP-AM
Worldwide – GS All-Access
LIVE STATS: TroyTrojans.com
TWITTER UPDATES: @GSAthletics_MBB

SERIES HISTORY: GS Leads 10-4
LAST MEETING: 11-29-2009 | Home | Win | 80-77

GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (11-3, 4-1 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

TROY UNIVERSITY TROJANS (6-8, 1-4 Sun Belt)
Schedule/Results | Roster | Stats | Media Guide | Game Notes

FIRST SELLOUT SINCE 2009
Georgia Southern posted its first sellout since 1-17-2009 in the UL Lafayette game. The Eagles took a 78-70 win over the Ragin' Cajuns to move into first place in the Sun Belt with the victory in front of 4,325 fans, the seventh-highest total in Hanner Fieldhouse history.

HEWITT MOVES INTO TOP-10
Jelani Hewitt continued his move up the Georgia Southern career scoring chart, moving into the top-10 in the win over South Alabama on January 10th. He has 1,544 career points and needs 37 more to reach Louis Graham's ninth place total of 1,581.

DIAMOND DOUBLES-UP
Curtis Diamond had a big game at Arkansas State, tallying 12 points off the bench with 10 rebounds for his first collegiate double-double. He grabbed nine offensive rebounds in the game and for a new career-high in rebounds, doubling his previous career high of five.

FEWEST POINTS ALLOWED SINCE 1987
Georgia Southern's 40-36 win over Texas State was the fewest points allowed by the Eagle defense since a 67-34 win over Savannah State on December 5th, 1987. It is the first 40-36 game in the shot clock era and ranks in a tie for 19th lowest scoring game for both teams combined, and the lowest scoring Sun Belt game in the shot clock era. The contest is the lowest combined scoring game since January 14th, 1950 when J.B. Searce's Eagles defeated the Erskine Flying Fleet 39-36.

ALL AROUND THE WORLD
The Eagles will travel 12,283 miles in the 30 games scheduled for the 2014-15 schedule. That total is just 168 miles less than halfway around the Earth. Georgia Southern's farthest games away from home last season, played in Cancun (840 mi.), are closer than two of the Eagles' opponents at Texas State (971 mi.) and UT Arlington (893 mi.).

Season miles to date..................................5,824 mi.
Statesboro to Troy.........................................248 mi.
2014-15 total season mileage..................12,283 mi.
2013-14 total season mileage....................9.216 mi.

GEORGIA STATE PICKED UP ON WSAV BASKETBALL BLITZ
For the second-straight season, Georgia Southern will have a home game broadcast on the WSAV Basketball Blitz. The games will air on the WSAV MyLC channel in the Savannah/Hilton Head market. The channel is available over the air at 3.2, DirecTV 29, BTC Communications 7, Bulloch Co-Op 6, Comcast 237, Darrien Communications 104, Hargay CATV 100, Kennedy Cablevision 104, Northland-Statesboro 7, Northland-Vidalia 12, Pineland Cable 60, and Time Warner 1215.

TOURNAMENT TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Tickets to the 2015 Sun Belt Basketball Tournament are available now by contacting the Georgia Southern Athletics Ticket Office. Tournament ticket books are available for $99 and will admit fans to every game at the Lakeland Center in New Orleans. Purchase your tickets by calling 1-800-GSU-WINS.

THE COACH
Head Coach Mark Byington enters this game with a 33-26 career record with a 26-22 mark at Georgia Southern in his second season in Statesboro.

THE WEATHER
Morning clouds will give way to afternoon sunshine as Troy, Ala. hits high temperature of 60 degrees on a perfect winter's day in the South.

UP NEXT
The Eagles continue on the road next week for two more road games against Texas State and UL Monroe in the next two rounds of league play. Thursday's game at Texas State starts at 8:30 p.m. (ET) in San Marcos against the Bobcats.

Georgia Southern Athletics provides up-to-date information on all its sports through its official website, GSEagles.com, through social media channels facebook.com/GSAthletics and twitter.com/GSAthletics. To purchase tickets call 1-800-GSU-WINS.